Mind is a MetaphorMetaphors Database by Brad Pasanekhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors
"For certain 'tis that Memory in Youth is infinitely more ready than in men of riper years, as appears from their different capacitys in learning of a Language; and then for Invention which always builds out of the Store-house of Memory, 'tis then most perfect and various when the Spirits are mos...Work: A Discourse Upon the Nature and Faculties of Manhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/24866
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/24866"If therefore we will warily attend to the Motions of the Mind, and observe what Course it usually takes in its way to Knowledge, we shall, I think, find that the Mind having got any Idea, which it thinks it may have use of, either in Contemplation or Discourse; the first Thing it does, is to abs...Work: An Essay Concerning Humane Understandinghttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22773
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22773"Our Admiration, which is a very pleasing Motion of the Mind, immediately rises at the Consideration of any Object that takes up a great deal of Room in the Fancy, and by Consequence, will improve into the highest Pitch of Astonishment and Devotion when we contemplate his Nature, that is neither ...Work: Spectator, No. 413 [Pleasures of the Imagination]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23929
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23929"The Sixth Book, like a troubled Ocean, represents Greatness in Confusion; the seventh Affects the Imagination like the Ocean in a Calm, and fills the Mind of the Reader, without producing in it any thing like Tumult or Agitation."Work: Spectator, No. 339http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23884
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/23884"But oh! my Friends, your Safety fills my Heart / With anxious Thoughts: A thousand secret Terrors, / Rise in my Soul."Work: Cato. A Tragedy.http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/21922
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/21922"Since then Effluviums from all Objects break, / And thrô the Air their unseen Journeys take, / To every Sense in various Measures come; / How is it that the crowding Troops find room? / Numberless Numbers to each Sense repair, / That various Motions, Forms, and Garbs do wear; / Enough to stifle ...Work: The Sceptick, against Mechanism. [from Miscellany Poems. By Tho. Heyrick]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/21031
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/21031"Who has so many English Dictionaries in his Study, and another in his Head bigger than all together (and yet there's still room to spare both for Brains and Projects) Does not he?--nay--now you ruffle his smooth Soul, alter his fair Body, and discompose him all over."Work: A Voyage Round the World: or, a Pocket-Library, Divided into several Volumes.http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20971
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/20971"Away the Skilful Doctor comes / Of Recipes and Med'cines full, / To check the giddy Whirl of Nature's Fires, / If so th' unruly Case requires; / Or with his Cobweb-cleansing Brooms / To sweep and clear the over-crouded Scull, / If settl'd Spirits flag, and make the Patient dull."Work: Democritus and his Neighbours. Imitated from Fontaine. [from Miscellany Poems]http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/24130
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